Homemade Braised Pork Trotters

Overview

I bought a pack of marinade from a certain store before, but I was too lazy to mix it with some spices (star anise, grass fruit, cinnamon, tangerine peel, bay leaves). My mother often made it for us in the past, and I know how to make it a little bit. However, tonight’s pig trotters were made by me based on my mother’s experience and my own ideas. The result was pretty good, so I decided to post it to share with you. It’s my first time making it, and some of it didn’t work well. I hope you can give me some advice. I’m very grateful. (For some brands of seasonings, I will put them in mosaics to avoid the suspicion of advertising. Forgive me!)

Tags

• hot dishes
• cooking wine
• garlic
• peanut oil
• pig's trotters
• soybean soup
• ginger slices
• green onions
• marinade
• shallots
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the burned pig's trotters, put them in a plate, and soak them in water. At this time, you can prepare to boil the water.

   

2. 2 After the water boils, put the pig's trotters into the boiling water to remove the blood.

   

3. 3 Add cooking wine (10g)

   

4. 4 Boil it for about three or four minutes and scoop it out

   

5. 5 Take out the ice cubes

   

6. 6 Mix the ice cubes evenly with the pig's trotters. This is to make the skin of the pig's trotters firmer when hot and cold, and taste chewy without losing the QQ feeling. Let it rest for a while.

   

7. 7 Okay, now let's make the ingredients. First, clean the skin of the shallots like peeling garlic, and then slice them

   

8. 8 Just leave one section of the green onion, but you don’t need the bottom section.

   

9. 9 Then pat the garlic with a knife without cutting it, then slice the ginger slices, and then tie the green onions together to prevent the green onions from falling apart

   

10. 10 The ingredients are ready, now stir-fry the shallots in peanut oil.

    

11. 11 Fry until it reaches this color and it's almost done.

    

12. 12 Place the fried shallots in a clean and hygienic medicine bag

    

13. 13 Then add the green onions, ginger, and garlic and stir-fry until they change color. Place on a plate and set aside

    

14. 14 At this time, while the smell of shallots, scallions, ginger, and garlic remains in the pot, we pour the pig's trotters that have been boiled in water and chilled with ice cubes for a long time into the pot and stir-fry.

    

15. 15 At this time, remove the cooked soybeans and leave the soybean soup. (To make soybean soup, you need to prepare soybeans. Soak the soybeans for three hours, then add 1,500 grams of water and simmer in a high-pressure small hot pot for 1 hour to obtain 1,000 grams of water. There is no need to add any ingredients, just simply use the soybean water as the brine)

    

16. 16 Take 20 grams of pure natural Chinese medicine concentrated marinade bought at a certain store. If you do not use the prepared marinade, it is recommended to mix some spices (star anise, grass fruit, cinnamon, tangerine peel, bay leaves, dark soy sauce, rock sugar) and boil them first to make the marinade

    

17. 17 Tie the shallots tightly with a medical bag and prepare to throw them into the brine

    

18. 18 Put the marinade and shallots into the brine and bring to a boil. Pour in the pork trotters that have been stir-fried in a pan

    

19. 19 After cooking for almost half an hour, remove the green onions and ginger slices and discard them, pour in light soy sauce

    

20. 20 In order to make the pig's trotters have a waxy feel, put them in a pressure cooker over low heat for 2 hours

    

21. 21 This is what braised pig trotters look like

    

22. 22 This is what braised pig trotters look like